Star Light Over Night Boat: The Reliationship Between Chinese Soap Opera And Contemporary Ideological Trend On The Turn Of The Century

Has entered for the 90's, the Chinese soap opera has met its prosperity. Not only by the viewing ratio but also by the its affects on the whole society, it has become one of most important cultural text.It also has been deeply affected by the chinese reform and open stretgy .On one hand the Chinese society's reforming process which was basd on marketability is impelling the economical and the social life transformation, on the other hand each kind of ideological trend impels it unceasingly in the behind. As a cultural text, the soap opera was not only influensed each kind of ideological trend, but also displays the different thought connotation and the text appearance.And they had buuld the linguistic environment of ideological trend forms, provided the stage and the space for them.This article mainly divides into six constituents.First I proposed the soap opera affects in the Chinese present age.I inspected the soap opera's main status, the text characteristic of the modern sosiety, and depicted the Chinnese soap opera since 90's. I have also combed the relationship between the the Chinnese soap opera and the contemporary ideological trend. In following four parts, I elaborated China soap opera according to the time order by four sections from the 90's until now.From 1989 to 1992 , in this period, the Chinese soap opera is in the exploration time.Although traditional reform theme soap opera has not dispears, some difficulty has obtained its breakthrough actually, the main melody soap opera is also facing the aphasia awkwardness.Only mass culture work"Hope"and "Editorial department's Story" hhave become the luminescent spot. Its secularization, the counter-authority's appearance has won society's approval,it declares the market will change the future culture pattern.During the 1993 to 1997 period,some important work appeared, Through my analysis, we may discover that, in this period of time, the social ideological trend was mainly under the modernized idea conformity. Under"The new authoritative principle", the China traditional culture rapid elevated, the reform theme steps onto the soap opera. Although some word has questioned the lose of traditional ethics, the do not want to change the reform policy itself.The modernlization guide thel culture pattern with the optimistic spirit. The modernlization turns people's pursue together, the pop culture, the leading culture all aimed the modernized ghost."The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Sentiment over Pearl River", "Person from Beijing in New York", "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" and so on is representing the different cultural context became the fellow traveller.From1998, China's social ideological trend started to the argument, the original modernized imagination net its difficulty, different angles of view and ideological trend all affected the soap opera creation.Thus, by the influence, different tendency soap opera work in the different thought appeared on screen. Under the left wing's influence "Fervor Burning Years" reconsiders the reform and the modernized course, "Loquacious Zhang Danian's Happy Life" as well as red classics rewriting was send to TV audience; Also the work which requiring the advancement of reform and open policy carried on thoroughly like "Liu Laogen", "Heavy snow whth no Mark" .After also appeared " Bead Young lady" ,which is a post-modern color soap opera work.. "Yong Zheng Dynasty" attempted to continue the"new authoritative principle",but it met some failiar by cristics. The Chinese soap opera met a complex complex condition.From 2002, Chinese each kind of ideological trend entered a recombines period. Nationalism becomes the most noticeable ideological trend, under its influence, "the Kanghsi Empire", "Emperor Hanwudi", "Genghis Khan" was published one after another. They has become a television screen landscape.But it cannot cover in social each kind of complex sound.Ethics theme starts to walk its road, "Family Has Nine Phoenixes", "Romantic Matter" and so on discuss ethics theme receives people's widespread attention.They promulgate the Chinese present age ethics difficulty.But the post work "The Comedy of Kongfu" has changed to a liberty view point. Since the end of the 90's, the leading words has been at a awkward position. Soap opera "Historical Sky", "Draw out Sword" and so on works although has received society's attention, but it holds actually many radical, the violence, the counter-human nature with the counter-humanity's connotation, hero's secularization already started to move towards the false hero's appearance.Passes through the Chinese present age soap opera and the social ideological trend relations analysis, we may discover, the soap opera in the Chinese present age can reflect the mainstream society ideological trend on its text, it grows, the growth in the mass culture and in the civilian culture linguistic environment, thus it could be influensed by each kind of social ideological trend . Moreover, Contemporary China's soap opera was produced of social ideological trend, market, politics.As a center of society, it has the important understanding function.